Pointers? Based variables? in CL?

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Intriguing article at:

http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/iSNblogs/iSpeak/archives/2005/04/pointers_in_cl.html
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W20F15FEA

As much as I love the idea for myself, it makes me wonder if anyone out there 
has production systems that should not have this capability. Keeping HLL 
compilers off of systems can help reduce some risks; not many, but some.

It also makes me curious about where IBM is headed. ILE CL with this ability, 
combined with UIM, SQL and various APIs, technically can do pretty much 
everything. If _Rwrite can send its return value back to a CL pointer variable 
for example, what's missing? And _Ropen can open display and printer files.

Why provide such an advancement if...

Oh, wait a minute... V5R4... quite a few physical systems out there are 
obsoleted by V5R4, aren't they? Come to think of it, mine will be.

Naaah.... that couldn't be a reason. So, why such a huge capability leap if the 
article proves true?

Tom Liotta

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